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What a Splashing Success!

What a Splashing Success!

by Judah Yoder | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Gamebirds, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Thrushes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes

View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Wood Duck drake swimming. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Slowly, quietly, yet steadily, I crept along, my binoculars in hand. Surely I can sneak in here without some duck, goose, or beaver announcing their displeasure at my...
Whooping Crane Wonders

Whooping Crane Wonders

by Ellie Tayler | Oct 1, 2022 | 2022, 10 October Bonus Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Cranes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes

Whooping Crane. Photo © Dreamstime.com. Dawn broke clear and cold on a gorgeous autumn day. The date was October 27, 2021, and it would be a day to remember. My siblings, my mom, and I drove 1½ hours in the early morning to the Horicon National Wildlife refuge in...
Favorite Focus, October 2022

Favorite Focus, October 2022

by Kevin Shank | Sep 29, 2022 | 2022, 10 October Bonus Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Favorite Focus, Nuthatches, Study Guide, The Photo Focus, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes

We Like Water Wildlife

We Like Water Wildlife

by Mary Ella and John Mark Ramer | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022, 09 September, Articles & Stories, Birds, Plants & Fungi, Water Life, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, Wildflowers

Marsh with wild phlox. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The twists and turns of the Big Spring are a water-life paradise. Flowing, rippling watercress and waving mosses grow in the waters. The clear “ok-a-ree!” of the Red-winged Blackbird wafts frequently from the cattail...
Our Birding Day

Our Birding Day

by Seth Good, 8 | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles & Stories, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Nuthatches, Pigeons & Doves, Sparrows, Thrushes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, Woodpeckers, Wrens

Sunday dawned a beautiful morning. The first birds I saw were cardinals—male and female. There were Chipping, English, and House Sparrows at the feeder. Out the kitchen window I saw a Junco and a Mourning Dove. At the feeder there were now starlings and Brown-headed...
Submissions from You Can Draw a Canada Goose from June and a pipevine swallowtail from July.

Submissions from You Can Draw a Canada Goose from June and a pipevine swallowtail from July.

by Kevin Shank | Nov 20, 2021 | 2021, 11 November, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, You Can Draw, Submissions

Pictures and Poems, July 2021

Pictures and Poems, July 2021

by Kevin Shank | Jun 8, 2021 | 2021, 07, July, Pictures and Poems

You Can Draw a Canada Goose

You Can Draw a Canada Goose

by Hezekiah Swihart | May 21, 2021 | 2021, 06, June Readers' Issue, Birds, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, You Can Draw Lesson

SCRATCHBOARD ART DEADLINE NOTE: We are stretching out this deadline one month so you can buy scratchboard and tool, if you need to. Submit by August 15. Go to June 2021 to download

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